Choosing Hope: How I Found My Name

After divorce, it was time to face the world on my own terms

Rachael Hope
Fearless She Wrote
Published in
5 min readAug 15, 2019

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Photo by Anunay Mahajan on Unsplash

I was married for 10 years, and when I got divorced I thought a lot about my name. I was born with one name, and before I got married, I was excited to change it to my fiance’s name. I loved the transformation to being an “us” instead of being the person I had been in the years before us.

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Rachael Hope
Fearless She Wrote

Polyamorous, loud laughing unapologetic feminist, rad fatty, and epic sweet tooth.